This is my first post to the forum. I was pleased to discover the announcement over at DistroWatch about this project, and downloaded/installed it immediately. I'm a TV producer in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and I have been discovering Linux for the past 20 months. After trying multiple distros, I had concluded that with all its imperfections, Fedora was still my preferred project - I like it because of its rapid pace of development, large user base, and huge collection of repositories. I had hoped to become profficient enough that some day I could unite these qualities and build a Fedora distro that was oriented to the content creator community - so, this what was great about discovering your project. OK - enough introductions.

I actually tried your stable version first, 30002, I think it's called. I prefer KDE to Gnome, and I found some posts in the forum that suggested using Synaptic to install KDE. I did that without any trouble, and KDE came up cleanly after a re-logging in. Then I installed your new 49k, I think it was 49993 - when I tried to log into KDE after the install, I got an error to the effect that the system couldn't start "kstartconfig" - and clicking the OK button returned me to the login screen. Googling this error has produced a bunch of hits on various SUSE forums - I wonder if anyone else has encountered this and found a solution before I try those SUSE user suggestions?

[quote="jebba"]Uh did you do a fresh install or an upgrade of 30k->50k?

Fresh install

[quote="jebba"]KDE is not on the CD as you probably know. Gnome is quite nice now, btw. ;)

I understand that people like it. I just don't - I have spend a considerable amount of time with it, but, it's not my choice. I have KDE 3.5 running on multiple machines, both Fedora and other distros. It's my preference - but I certainly have no interest in starting a Gnome vs KDE war, not to mention all the other desktops...

[quote="jebba"]If you have a fresh install, i suggest installing yumex then using it to download/install the kde bits you want:

That's what I did. "yum install yumex" then, checked the repos, and it seemed as though the defaults were simply the blag repos, which I left that way - then I installed all the KDE packages.

I've not used kde before but is there a --debug option? If there is it could be useful to iron out your problems and for googling.

Doing some further research - the error I'm getting gives me a "details" option in a second box that pops up sometimes, after I click the "OK" in the first error dialog. That informs me that KDE is trying to open /home/cj/.kde/share/config/startupconfig and can't find it. It would seem that something in the installation process is breaking, and that probably one-time-use file is not being written to the destination - I looked in the location and it's definitely not there. There is a file called "startupconfigkeys" in there.

I'm more inclined to think that deleting your entire kde configuration directories in your home dir (rm -rf /home/`whoami`/.kde*) and having the new version recreate them or ensuring that you've got all the necessary programs to run KDE.

I'm more inclined to think that deleting your entire kde configuration directories in your home dir (rm -rf /home/`whoami`/.kde*) and having the new version recreate them or ensuring that you've got all the necessary programs to run KDE.

Thanks,Stephen Clement

Here's what's installed - now, the strange thing is that KDE is no longer even offered as an option in the session options at the login screen! I've removed and reinstalled several times, to no avail - it just seemed to make matters worse.

I'm more inclined to think that deleting your entire kde configuration directories in your home dir (rm -rf /home/`whoami`/.kde*) and having the new version recreate them or ensuring that you've got all the necessary programs to run KDE.

Thanks,Stephen Clement

Here's what's installed - now, the strange thing is that KDE is no longer even offered as an option in the session options at the login screen! I've removed and reinstalled several times, to no avail - it just seemed to make matters worse.

After doing the X :1 &, you'll get switched into your new X session on virtual terminal 9. Switch back to the first, then run the second two commands, then you'll have to switch back to virtual terminal 9 (Ctrl+Alt+F9). Although this works with 30k, I'm not sure if it'll work with 49k. Not sure if you already know this, but Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to your other graphical session (yes, you can have two copies of graphical linux running! the wonders of a real multi-tasking operating system, unlike some others we know...). Hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when you're in VT9 in order to kill the X server. And that's about it. I hope. I've probably made a mistake somewhere 'round here, but I guess you'll have to find out. ;)

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